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Dering Harbor election results
by Susan Carey Dempsey
Dering Harbor elections were held on Tuesday, June 18.
Current trustees Ari Benacerraf and Clora Kelly were re-elected, receiving 34 votes each. Three write-in votes were recorded, two in the name of John T. Colby III and one listing John T. Colby, Jr.
Village voters came out to support a proposed change for future elections, moving them to the Friday of Memorial Day weekend to enable as many voters as possible to participate.
The vote on the referendum was 34 votes Yes, and 3 votes No.
In other Dering Harbor news:
At the June 8 meeting of The Dering Harbor Board of Trustees, Dan Calabro and his wife JoAnn informed the board of their intention to sue the village over the new water tank installation, which they said was affecting a piece of property they own in the village.
In a long discussion, that included Mayor Betsy Morgan, Village Counsel Wayne D. Bruyn and Trustee Patrick Parcells — who has served as the liaison to the Suffolk County Water Authority (SCWA — the Calabros stated that the tank had been moved from its original planned site onto their property, a 164- by 45-foot parcel. The board stated that the tank was not on their property. Mr. Parcells said that the original water mains dating to 1917 do pass under the parcel. He conceded that three valves might be on their land and said he could quickly have them moved. The Calabros complained that someone had accessed their land and cleared it to support the water installation.
"We did some clearing on your land," Mr. Parcells agreed. "We won't charge you for that."
Board members said it was likely they were not aware that this piece of land abutting village property belonged to the Calabros. If they had, Trustee Karen Kelsey said, it would have been better to notify the Calabros before it was cleared.
Mr. Calabro acknowledged he would have to gather information to support his complaint, including a survey of his property. Mayor Morgan asked him to "please do so with the understanding that all of this has been considered with a great deal of gravity and seriousness, and I'm insulted, actually."
Mr. Calabro responded, "I'm actually insulted, so don't turn this into that."
"Well, we're even," the mayor said.
Mr. Calabro said he was raising his complaint because someone named Jason Himes from SCWA had alerted him to the problem involving his land. The ensuing discussion clarified that Mr. Himes worked for the county health department, not SCWA, and had contacted Mr. Calabro, with whom he had a long-standing relationship. When the board asked him to explain exactly what problem Mr. Himes was talking about, Mr. Calabro said he had an upcoming meeting with Mr. Himes to determine that: "About what, I'll let you know."
The board passed a number of measures at their June 8 meeting that had been the subject of debate for several months. The regulation to expand summertime restrictions on noise-generating activities to include not only construction but also specific property maintenance and landscaping work finally passed after being held over through nine meetings. The long-running debate extended through the winter and spring months.
A proposed regulation limiting anchoring in the waters off Dering Harbor was not voted on. The Trustees want to spend time coordinating with their counterparts on the Town Board before making any changes to the regulations.
Dan Calabro, Dering Harbor, Jason Himes, Mayor Betsy Morgan, premium, Suffolk County Water Authority, Trustee Patrick Parcells, Village Counsel Wayne D. Bruyn
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Plus Communications Helps Reporters Make Connections in Ukraine
Tue., Apr. 12, 2022
Plus Communications is working with the Ukrainian Volunteer Journalist Initiative, a community of reporters, business owners, lawyers and students, to assist foreign journalists covering the Russian invasion of the country.
The volunteer organization wants to make sure the Ukrainian perspective is presented in the global media. UVJI produces a daily news digest of translated news from military, civilian and support fronts.
It will help jounalists report about political and cultural developments in Ukraine and work to counter Russian disinformation and propaganda.
Launched Feb. 27, three days after the Russian invasion, UVJI also will connect foreign reporters with members of the Ukraine government and help research potential stories.
It also will send story pitches and find guests for radio, TV and online reports.
Based in Arlington, VA, Plus will book interviews for US media outlets with UVJI staffers in Ukraine and with members of parliament, former government leaders and citizens impacted by the war.
The public affairs shop is working on a pro bono basis.
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Ogilvy Gauges US Opinion About Japan's Whaling
The Embassy of Japan has hired Ogilvy to conduct an audit of US public opinion about the country's commercial whaling activity.
An outstanding effort for imperative reasons as press people are not only reporting under wartime circumstances but getting wounded and dying as well. It must also be noted and heralded with huge respect that the sound and clear broadcast pictures we see daily are produced by crews whose faces and names do not appear...and who also are subject to the pressures of a barbaric Russian military...who, with gutsy men and women media have to function amid realities we are warned "could be disturbing."
It is these truths and more that should treat the vulgarities of Trump and the disloyal far right with the loathing they richly deserve for their total lack of decency in failing to recognize these courageous professionals.

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The condition of the environment is the most important issue of our current age. What does it matter how much material wealth one has if you can't drink the water or breathe the air. Outmoded, harmful technologies that are preserved due to greedy corporations, lobbies and political alliances endanger all living things. Humans are the first species to have control of the existence of all other species. We are doing a dismal job witnessed by rampant extinction rates.
Modern society seems to have a bigger and bigger disconnect with the natural world. This is a disturbing and perverse aspect of human nature. People go to supermarkets and have no clue as to what's involved producing what they're eating. Factory farm operations swallow up smaller more ethical farms and cut corners for the bottom line. The fact that creationism is being taught over Darwin at some schools is frightening. People seem to have forgotten that we too are animals. The highest form of primate; but animals nonetheless. Go to the monkey house in any zoo and you will see hundreds of similarities in looks and behaviors.
I try to give the animals I paint a noble, heroic quality. I want to depict them as intelligent and feeling without anthropomorphizing. They are individuals and are deserving and entitled to an opportunity to survive. A world full of humans and domesticated animals is a scary, dangerous prospect.
I've painted animals we depict as evil, for example sharks and wolves. Now we've practically wiped out both s pecies. Who's the evil entity here? Initially, "The Misunderstood" looks like a straight ahead realist painting. The wolves are out on pack ice and the sharks in arctic waters. Places they'd never be. They (as many other species) are being driven to the corners of the earth by encroaching humanity. Environmental changes are further indicated by the red mountain range (eg. nuclear activity and global warming). In New York City I've painted the "native" wildlife: cockroaches, rats, mice, and pigeons.
As far as cattle paintings go; I would paint these doomed creatures in stanchions, auctions and stockyards. I used to feel the bucolic, pastoral paintings were a sellout (an unrealistic depiction of the cattle industry). So few of the cattle I saw were able to graze freely. Most dairy cattle are chained to stanchions and forced to eat cheap corn or sometimes worse forms of feed (mainly ground up animal by-products). This makes them sick. 75% of the antibiotics made in this country go to cattle. We get meat and milk from animals raised this way.
Cattle are ruminants; They are meant to eat grass. When they do they are healthier and we get a food product untainted by antibiotics and hormones. Cattle that eat grasses have fat that contain omega-3 fatty acid, instead of the inferior omega-6 variety. Milk from grass-eating cows contains a natural source of conjugated linoleic acid which fights obesity and tumor production. 3rd world countries wouldn't dream of giving corn to cattle. That's for human consumption, cows eat grass. They also have a fraction of the rampant breast, prostate and other forms of cancer we have in the US. Cattle out in the pasture is an artistic tradition going back to bison and prehistoric man. It is where all cattle should be. This benefits all involved.


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Q: How to stress Phrasal verb? Many people told me that the particle is stressed when it comes to Intransitive Phrasal Verb. (like "warm up" in this video https://youtu.be/9I1DBOJERns?t=3) (Text: Winter's over, the weather's starting to warm up)
However, I caught the speaker in this audio stressed the verb "warm", not the particle "up". So... Which one, the verb or the particle in intransitive phrasal verb, can we put a stress on?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZgvrPpTaCoFYeqw0m8HXl0fZ5UFWgMxd/view?usp=sharing
(Text: Put the fire on. I need to warm up)

A: "Stress" in English is a bit complicated. In one sense, both words in a phrase like "warm up" are stressed.
One way of defining "stress" is in terms of whether the vowel in a syllable can be reduced. If the vowel can be reduced, the syllable is certainly unstressed. If it can't be reduced, the situation is not so clear. In a phrase like "warm up", normally neither syllable can be pronounced with a reduced vowel: it can be transcribed phonologically as /wɔrm ʌp/ (or /wɔːm ʌp/ in a non-rhotic accent). (In fact, I'm simplifying the situation here: it actually is possible to hear phonetic reduction of vowels in contexts where the phonological rules that I'm using would say that vowel reduction should not be possible. But for a learner, I think it's useful to stick to the simplification that we only see reduced vowels in unstressed syllables.)
As an independent word, warm is definitely stressed, and we can say that it doesn't actually lose that stress in the phrase warm up.
To describe what happens, we can introduce a distinct concept of "accent". I said that stress can (in simplified terms) be defined as being about whether a vowel can be reduced; accent can be defined as being about whether a syllable takes high pitch (or alternately, we can say that there is a pitch fall after an accented syllable in English). (As with stress, my description of accent here is a simplification: you can find a more accurate description with some more details in the paper "A Theory of Pitch Accent in English", by  Dwight L. Bolinger, 1958.  It might be a bit more accurate for me to say that an "accented" syllable tends to be marked by a change in pitch: often either a rise in pitch before it or a fall in pitch after it).
Many types of words or phrases have multiple stressed syllables, but are accented only on the last stressed syllable. The accented syllable in a word is sometimes said to have "primary stress" (written as ˈ before the syllable) and stressed syllables in a word before the accented syllable are said to have "secondary stress" (written as ˌ). But in fact, in special situations, the accent can sometimes be placed on one of the earlier stressed syllables in a word or phrase.
Two situations that commonly cause a word to be accented on the earlier syllable are emphasis (e.g. showing a contrast), or avoiding a sequence of two accented syllables in a row.
For example, the word Chinese, which has two stressed syllables, is normally pronounced with an accent on the second: /ˌtʃaɪˈniz/. But it can be accented on the first syllable to emphasize a contrast ("I said that they were Chinese /ˈtʃaɪniz/, not Japanese /ˈdʒæpəniz/") or when it is used as an attributive adjective before a word that starts with a stressed syllable ("a Chinese city /ˈtʃaɪniz ˈsɪti/").
So in theory, warm up could be accented on the first syllable to emphasize a contrast ("take your time to ramp up and warm up /ˈræmpʌpn̩ˈwɔrmʌp/") or when it is used attributively before a word starting with a stressed syllable (in that context, it would be written with a hyphen, as in "a warm-up exercise /ˈwɔrmʌp ˈɛksərsaɪz/").
But your example doesn't fit either of those contexts. And in fact, to my ears, the speaker saying "Put the fire on. I need to warm up" puts the accent on up, just as would be expected from the usual rule! Compare the pitch contour of fire on earlier in the sentence, where fire is accented and on is not, to the pitch contour of warm up: I think there's much less of a drop in pitch between warm and up than there is between fire and on. I might be wrong (I haven't analyzed the pitch with any audio tools), but I think you might be hearing the use of a "stressed", as in unreduced, vowel in warm and misinterpreting that as "primary stress", when in fact the primary stress/accent is on the syllable up.

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Q: Create a Video Stream (AVI) from a Series of Images There is an IP web camera that I wrote a .NET class for sometime ago.  It's basically a Timer implementation that pings a snapshot CGI script from the camera every five seconds.  The camera itself is very rudamentary; it does not have any sort of API for me to work with, the only thing I can do programmatically (remotely)  is invoke this script.  The script returns a 640x480 JPEG image.  Simple.
Now what I need to be able to do is take a days worth of these images, and create a "time lapse" AVI video stream out of it that will eventually be embedded into a web page. How can I do this with VB.NET?

A: FFMpeg has windows binaries and is very popular.
Making movies from image files using ffmpeg/mencoder
You'll have to check whether the available output formats suit you.

A: .net doesn't directly support video formats. Your best option would be to use a 3rd party tool to generate the .avi.
ffmpeg is one option. You could access it directly via a command line like this:
ffmpeg -f image2 -i img%d.jpg /output/a.mpg

You would need to name your images img1.jpg, img2.jpg etc. For more details see the ffmpeg faq. You should also find details in the faq for how to output different video formats.
You can start a process from vb using Process.Start(). Something like this:
Process.Start("ffmpeg.exe", "-f image2 -i img%d.jpg /output/a.mpg")

You could also take a look at ffmpeg-sharp or Tao.FFmpeg, they are .net wrappers for the ffmpeg libraries. I haven't tried either personally, but it looks like it might help you out.
Another alternative would be to take a look at MEncoder, which has similar functionality. You should be able to look up a similar command line for this tool.
[Related SO question: 271003]

A: This is a C# wrapper by someone at Codeproject:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/audio-video/avifilewrapper.aspx
That wrapper should provide you with what you need.

A: There are several command-line tools that can take a series of images and output an AVI file. I would suggest you call one of them from your app.
I would provide links to suggestions, but it has been years since I've used one.
Edit: apparently you can do this using ffmpeg: http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-doc.html

For creating a video from many images:
ffmpeg -f image2 -i foo-%03d.jpeg -r
  12 -s WxH foo.avi
The syntax foo-%03d.jpeg specifies to
  use a decimal number composed of three
  digits padded with zeroes to express
  the sequence number. It is the same
  syntax supported by the C printf
  function, but only formats accepting a
  normal integer are suitable.


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CMS Declares War on Prescription Drug Abuse in Medicare, Focus on Opioid, Acetaminophen Users
Begins with validation and analysis of Part D claims data it receives from Part D sponsors
Jan. 9, 2014 – Prescription drug abuse, even in the Medicare Part D drug program, is a nationwide epidemic, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which has committed to take the problem seriously and begin actions to protect Medicare beneficiaries and the Medicare Trust fund. Targets include Part D enrollees who use opioid or acetaminophen, to see if they have overutilization issues, and physicians who may over-prescribe.
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CMS will focus its fraud and abuse strategy on the validation and analysis of Part D claims data it receives from Part D sponsors. It is referred to as Prescription Drug Even or PDE data.
"We are leveraging CMS' access to all PDE data and using it to guide our anti-fraud efforts and share the results of our analysis with Part D plan sponsors, law enforcement agencies and pharmacy and physician licensing boards, as appropriate, so this information can assist our joint efforts to combat fraud and abuse," says a CMS news release.
"A centerpiece of this strategy that focuses on protecting beneficiaries is the identification of Part D enrollees who have potential opioid or acetaminophen overutilization issues that indicate the need to implement appropriate controls on these drugs for the identified beneficiaries.
"In addition, data analysis is employed to identify prescribers and pharmacies that may warrant further action to curb fraudulent or abusive activities. With the proposed rule issued January 6, 2014, CMS seeks to provide the agency with new tools to employ when problematic prescribers and pharmacies are identified."
The key provisions released by CMS with the proposed rule, as well as ongoing CMS actions include the following.
Fraud and Abuse Provisions in the CY 2015 Policy & Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Program Proposed Rule
Require that Prescribers of Part D Drugs Enroll in Medicare: Section 6405 of the Affordable Care Act requires that physicians and non-physician practitioners who order durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics and supplies (DMEPOS) or certify home health care must be enrolled in Medicare.
The statute also permits the Secretary to extend these Medicare enrollment requirements to physicians and non-physician practitioners who order or certify all other categories of items or services in Medicare, including covered Part D drugs. CMS is proposing to require that physicians and non-physician practitioners who write prescriptions for covered Part D drugs must be enrolled in Medicare for their prescriptions to be covered under Part D.
Impact of Proposal: Requiring prescribers to enroll in Medicare would help CMS ensure that Part D drugs are only prescribed by qualified individuals.
Drug Abuse from MedlinePlus
Drug abuse is a serious public health problem that affects almost every community and family in some way. Each year drug abuse causes millions of serious illnesses or injuries among Americans. Abused drugs include:
Drug abuse also plays a role in many major social problems, such as drugged driving, violence, stress, and child abuse. Drug abuse can lead to homelessness, crime, and missed work or problems with keeping a job. It harms unborn babies and destroys families. There are different types of treatment for drug abuse. But the best is to prevent drug abuse in the first place.
NIH: National Institute on Drug Abuse
Permit Revocation of Medicare Enrollment for Abusive Prescribing Practices and Patterns: CMS is proposing to add authority to revoke a physician's or eligible professional's Medicare enrollment if:
CMS determines that he or she has a pattern or practice of prescribing Part D drugs that is abusive and represents a threat to the health and safety of Medicare beneficiaries or otherwise fails to meet Medicare requirements; or
His or her Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Certificate of Registration is suspended or revoked; or
The applicable licensing or administrative body for any state in which a physician or eligible professional practices has suspended or revoked the physician or eligible professional's ability to prescribe drugs.
Impact of Proposal: Providing CMS the authority to revoke such prescribers' Medicare enrollment and would help protect beneficiaries and the Medicare Trust Fund from fraud, waste and abuse.
Provide Direct Access to Part D Sponsors' Downstream Entities: The proposed provision would provide CMS, its antifraud contractors, and other oversight agencies the ability to request and collect information directly from pharmacy benefit managers, pharmacies and other entities that contract or subcontract with Part D Sponsors to administer the Medicare prescription drug benefit.
Impact of Proposal: The provision would streamline CMS' and its anti-fraud contractors' investigative processes. Currently, it can take a long time for CMS' contractors who are often assisting law enforcement to obtain important documents like invoices and prescriptions directly from pharmacies, because they must work through the Part D plan sponsor to obtain this information. This proposal is designed to provide more timely access to records, including for investigations of Part D fraud and abuse, and responds to recommendations from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General.
Improve Payment Accuracy: The proposed regulation also would implement the Affordable Care Act requirement that MA plans and Part D sponsors report and return identified Medicare overpayments.
Impact of Proposal: The provision would codify and clarify rules regarding when Part D and MA plan sponsors must report and return overpayments.
Results of Ongoing CMS Actions Against Part D Fraud and Abuse
Reduction in the number of Medicare beneficiaries receiving coverage for prescription drugs that threaten their health and safety. The Medicare Part D Overutilization Monitoring System (OMS) was fully implemented on July 31, 2013, to help CMS ensure that sponsors have established reasonable and appropriate drug utilization management programs to assist in preventing overutilization of prescribed medications.
CMS provides quarterly reports to sponsors on beneficiaries with potential opioid or acetaminophen overutilization issues identified through analyses of PDE data and through beneficiaries referred by the CMS Center for Program Integrity (CPI).
Sponsors are required to respond to CMS within 30 days on the status of the review for each beneficiary case. The principle performance metric for OMS is the number and percentage of acetaminophen and opioid overutilizers. An initial comparison with 2011 PDE data pre-dating the implementation of OMS shows there has already been a substantial reduction in the number of acetaminophen and opioid overutilizers in Medicare Part D.
OMS July 31 Report Summary Compared to 2011 Analysis
PART D OMS SUMMARY
CY 20111
CY 2013 through June1
(1/1/2011 to 12/31/2011)
% of Part D Population
% of Product Utilizers
(1/1/2013 to 6/30/2013)
All Part D Enrollees
Total APAP Utilizers
Beneficiaries with Potential APAP Issues
Total Opioid Utilizers
Beneficiaries with Potential Opioid Issues
Beneficiaries with CPI Referrals2
1 The OMS July 2013 reports included analysis of PDE data with dates of service from January 1, 2013 to June 30, 2013, and received by June 30, 2013. The CY 2011 analysis used PDE with dates of service from January 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011, and received by June 2, 2012.
2 Beneficiaries with CPI referrals were not subject to Part D oversight until mid-2012. CPI referral cases may originate several years prior to being sent to Part D for follow-up with plan sponsors.
Increased Law Enforcement and other referrals resulting from proactive data analysis: To date, for FY 2013, CMS has made 60 referrals to law enforcement based on proactive analysis and initiated 182 proactive investigations that are open and being developed for referral to law enforcement. The provisions of the proposed rule would provide CMS the additional ability to take administrative action when a pattern or practice of abusive prescribing is identified through data analysis and confirmed through subsequent investigation.
Accurate Prescriber Identifiers Used to Confirm Prescribing Authority: Through rulemaking finalized in 2012, CMS required Part D sponsors to submit Prescription Drug Events (PDEs—Part D claims data) with active and valid individual prescriber National Provider Identifiers (NPIs) beginning January 1, 2013. CMS began to apply edits to any PDE without an active and valid individual NPI on May 6, 2013. Of the 2013 PDEs submitted through the end of June, only about 0.02 percent (approximately 148,000 of the 611.3 million PDEs) were rejected by CMS either because the prescriber identifier reported was not an NPI or the NPI submitted by the provider was inactive or invalid. CMS will continue to monitor sponsor performance regarding the use of valid and active NPIs.
CMS examined the taxonomy codes for 2013 PDEs, which are self-reported by the providers to identify their specialty in the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES). Of the 2013 PDEs (submitted through July 1, 2013) with a valid NPI, only about 0.5 percent were for drugs prescribed by providers with a taxonomy code that would be inappropriate for a prescriber (such as, adult companion).
Based on a review of the PDEs reporting these apparently inappropriate taxonomy codes, CMS determined that about 10.6 percent were for controlled substances. We further determined that, for all but 16.5 percent of these PDEs for controlled substances, the prescriber in fact did have a valid DEA number. Thus, despite the inappropriate taxonomy code, the vast majority of these prescribers were found to be authorized to prescribe. CMS is conducting ongoing analysis to identify other possible sources of these errors, such as incorrect selection of an NPI when the prescriber has multiple identifiers.
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LG HD 3D TVs, Mobile Phones with 3D and True HD Displays will be used to deliver Legendary Entertainment unseen film content at the San Diego con-comic show.
LG Electronics and Legendary Entertainment are joining forces to deliver an entertainment experience for visitors to the at Comic-Con International, who will get sneak peaks of future Legendary films on LG 3D Smart TVs and LG Smartphones with 3D and True HD displays.
As the nation's largest gathering of film, gaming and comic-book fans – running from 12–15 July, San Diego, US – Comic-Con attendees will be treated to sneak peek of future films from Legendary films and other content exclusively on LG CINEMA 3D Smart TVs and premium LG smartphones with 3D and True HD displays.
In this groundbreaking event, LG will prove it's possible to bring a movie-theater-quality viewing experience into the living room—and even into the palm of one's hand.
Legendary content will be shown exclusively on LG displays, such as the popular LM7600 and LM6200 LED CINEMA 3D Smart TVs, and on LG HD smartphones, including the LG Spectrum and LG Nitro. These viewing platforms are expected to thrill attendees with amazing HD picture quality and LG Cinema 3D technology for TVs.
Legendary fans attending Comic-Con also will have the opportunity to experience "The Pass," a fun and interactive contest in which participants are challenged with a set of tasks and rewarded with a Legendary T-shirt and the chance to win a VIP ticket for access to two exclusive screenings, shown for the first time on the LG CINEMA 3D Smart TVs and LG smartphones with True HD displays. Winners also have a chance to get a first-look at upcoming films such as "Pacific Rim" and "Seventh Son," and get up close and personal with some of Legendary's directors and other talent.


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The current brief post is primarily concerned with two women buried in the eighth- to tenth-century Islamic necropolis at Tauste, Spain, both of whom appear to be long-distance migrants from a significantly colder and/or mountainous location than Spain. What follows consists of a brief discussion of the oxygen isotope results from this site and the areas of Eurasia where those with unusual isotope result could have potentially spent their childhoods.
The geographic distribution of areas with rainwater/drinking-water oxygen isotope values below ‑12.0‰, shown in black; the location of the eighth- to tenth-century Islamic necropolis at Tauste, Spain, is marked in red. Image: C. R. Green, based primarily on the IAEA's 2013 RCWIP model. Click here for a larger version of this map.
The Islamic necropolis at Tauste (Zaragoza, Spain), close to the northern frontier of Al-Andalus, was discovered in 2010 and contains a minimum of 4,500 people, all of whom were placed on their right-hand side and aligned to face Mecca. The burial ground has been radiocarbon dated to between the eighth and the tenth centuries AD and the remains of 31 individuals from this cemetery have been additionally subjected to multiple isotope analysis, with the aim of looking at their geographic origins, mobility and nutrition. The results of this suggest that the majority of the population buried here (c. 84%) grew up locally in the Ebro basin of northern Spain. However, five individuals had results significantly outside the expected local ranges for oxygen and/or strontium isotopes, and these outliers are of considerable interest. Two of them, both male, had tooth enamel phosphate oxygen isotope levels—δ¹⁸Op—above 19.1‰, notably higher than those of the majority of the population investigated here (16.4–18.0‰ δ¹⁸Op). As has been discussed in a number of previous posts, such results are indicative of a childhood spent in a much warmer and perhaps more coastal environment than this area of Spain and would be consistent with an origin in the very southernmost parts of Iberia, large areas of North Africa, or parts of the Near East including the northern Arabian peninsula.
Even more interesting are the two individuals, both female, who have exceptionally low oxygen isotope results: 14.48‰ δ¹⁸Op (individual T-31, aged 16–20) and 14.25‰ δ¹⁸Op (individual T-15, aged 33–45). When considering these two individuals, it is worth recalling that—as Montgomery et al have recently emphasised—there are very few environmental, biological, or cultural processes that that can result in human tooth enamel oxygen isotope values that are lower than would be expected on the basis of the consumed drinking-water. So, the question is, where in Eurasia or Africa can be found drinking-water with sufficiently depleted drinking-water oxygen isotope values to produce the tooth enamel results that these two women possess?
Oxygen isotope values versus strontium isotope values in the tooth enamel of individuals from Tauste, showing the main 'local' group and the five outliers (image: Guede et al, 2017, fig. 7, used under PLOS's CC BY 4.0 license).
With regard to this, the authors of the isotope study of the Tauste Islamic necropolis comment only that the two women in question may come 'from a colder or higher altitude region' and 'a more mountainous geographical region', and don't investigate their potential origins any further. However, a significantly greater degree of precision than this is not only arguably possible in light of the above observations, but also actually produces some rather fascinating results. The reason for this is that human tooth enamel phosphate oxygen isotope levels as dramatically low as 14.25 and 14.48‰ δ¹⁸Op would, in light of the above, appear to require a drinking-water value of below -12.2‰ to -12.6‰ δ¹⁸Odw (using the 2008 Daux et al drinking-water equation; using the alternative 2010 revised Levinson equation it would require a drinking-water oxygen isotope value of below -13.7‰ to -14.2‰ δ¹⁸Odw), something that is notably rare across much of the globe.
As can be seen from the map included at the top of this post, areas with rainwater/drinking-water values below -12.0‰ are, in fact, only widely encountered in northern Scandinavia and Russia, and are otherwise really only found in parts of the Alps, the Caucasus Mountains region, and the Hindu Kush, Tibetan Plateau and Tian Shan area in the east. Needless to say, such a very restricted distribution of candidate areas strongly suggests that the two women spent their childhoods not simply in a 'higher altitude region' as the article indicates, but were instead very likely to be long-distance migrants to northern Iberia who had potentially travelled even further over their lifetimes than the two men noted above. Which of these possible childhood residences is more credible is obviously a matter of debate. The closest locale is, of course, the Alps, and if correct it would imply that the women in question had moved from an early medieval Christian milieu to an Islamic one at some point. Next closest is Scandinavia, which is at least worth noting as not only were the Vikings occasionally active around Iberia and in the Mediterranean from the ninth-century, but slaves from more northerly parts of Europe were certainly being traded south to Iberia in this era too (with the English perhaps playing a part in this, given the tenth-century Hudud al-'Alam's reference to trade between Al-Andalus and Britain). Finally, the women could well have grown up in the Islamic world and have simply travelled a significant distance to reach Al-Andalus, perhaps from either the Caucasus Mountains area or even the Hindu Kush. Whatever the case may be, these women are thus clearly of considerable interest.
In conclusion, the isotopic results from the large eighth- to tenth-century Islamic necropolis at Tauste are worth serious consideration, with around 13% of the sampled population having clearly non-local oxygen isotope values. Whilst pinning down the childhood locales of these people with any degree of certainty remains challenging, the published results do at the very least seem to offer yet more potential evidence for there having been a notable degree of medium- to long-distance mobility and contact in early medieval Europe.
Location of Muslim and Christian archaeological sites and the Upper March or Muslim northern frontier in western Europe during the ninth century, with the location of Tauste marked (image: Guede et al, 2017, fig. 9, used under PLOS's CC BY 4.0 license).